Battle Royale (2000)
It was with a good amount of anticipation that I obtained the “Special Version” of the infamous Battle Royale, but sad to say, it was not worth the time and effort to watch, much less...
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Cast Away (2000)
While finding many scenes of Cast Away to be fascinating, I must say that as a whole I was less than impressed with the end result. Tom Hanks gives an incredibly self-sacrificing performance, and is...
Jurassic Park III (2001)
In June 1998, Steven Spielberg announced he’d produce but not direct the third Jurassic Park feature. Halfway through The Lost World, Spielberg felt uninspired, as if slavishly cooking from a recipe. He had other...
The Beach (2000)
After his monumental breakthrough in Titanic and The Man in the Iron Mask, Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film after taking about a year off from acting doesn’t quite prove worth the wait. This one puts him back in...
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
An assistant magazine editor (Heche) and her boyfriend (Schwimmer) take a trip to a tropical island for six days and seven nights (hence the name of the film.) While there he proposes and she accepts, but...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Unlike author Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel, the 1993 Universal Pictures film adaptation was built with sequels in mind. Whereas the novel wiped out the dinosaurs in the end, Spielberg kept them alive, as...